641

This page is about the year 641 of the Julian calendar .

Asia

• Spring : King Tibetan Lhasa Songsten Gampo married a Chinese princess, Wen Cheng ^{Middle East}
  • April 9 , Egypt : Surrender of the Fortress of Babylon .
  • May 13 : Taking Nikiou by the Arabs of Amr ibn al-As .
  • End June : Assault on Alexandria .
  • September 14 : The Patriarch of Alexandria Cyrus is restored to his seat .
  • November 8 : The Arabs take Alexandria . The Byzantines had eleven months to evacuate the city, carrying their belongings. The 40,000 Jews are allowed to stay. Two hundred Greeks and Egyptians hostages to guarantee the successful implementation of the peace treaty.

  
  

  • First shipment of Abdallah Ibn Saad cons of Nubia (641-642) .
  • Burning of the Alexandrian library , narrated by the Arab historian Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi , who died in 1231 (the fact is not attested) .

  Europe

  • March 12 : Start of reign of Heraclius Constantine III , Hraclonas and Martine , Byzantine emperors associates . On the death of Heraclius , Constantine and his son Hraclonas stand against one another to succeed him.
  • June 23 : the death of Constantine (poisoned?) Hraclonas and Martine reign alone .
  • September : Troops in Asia, raised by the Armenian officer Valentin Hraclonas and forcing his mother to join Martine Constans II , son of Constantine, aged 11.

  
  

  • Grimoald , son of Pepin of Landen , Mayor of Austrasia after the murder of Otto .
  • The Duke of Radulf Thuringia heaves. Siegbert III , surrounded by the Mayor of the Palace Grimoald and Duke Adalgisel crossed the Rhine with an army. He obtained a first success at which the Agilolfing Fara was killed. Radulf takes refuge in a camp on the banks of the Unstrut. He took advantage of dissension among the Franks to make an exit and the rout. It gained its independence vis--vis the Franks.

  Births in 641

  Deaths in 641

  • March 11 : Heraclius , Byzantine emperor .

  References

  1. Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, Grove Press, 2007 ( ISBN 080214327X ) [ read online ]
  2. ^{a , b , c , d and e} Alfred J. Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt - And the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, READ BOOKS, 2008 [ read online ]
  3. Dominique Arnold, History of Christianity in Africa: the first seven centuries, Karthala Editions, 2001 ( ISBN 2845861907 ) [ read online ]
  4. Jean-Marie Sauveur Gorini, Defence of the church against the historical errors of MM. Guizot, Aug. Am and Thierry, Michelet, Ampere, Quinet, Fauriel, Aime-Martin, etc., Volume 1, Girard and Josserand, 1853 [ read online ]
  5. ^{a , b and c} Eduard von Muralt test chronography Byzantine: To be used to review the annals of the Lower Empire and especially chronographs Slavonic of 395 for 1057, Eggers, St. Petersburg, 1855 [ read online ]
  6. ^{a , b and c} Werner Seibt, Ccile Morrisson, Byzantine Seals commerciaires the seventh century to found Carthage, Numismatic Journal, Volume 6 Number 24 pp 222-241, 1982 [ read online ]
  7. Paul Fouracre, Rosamond McKitterick, The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 500-c. 700, Cambridge University Press, 2005 ( ISBN 0521362911 ) [ read online ]
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